the buzz log
Before the strike hit, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority spiked sharply (+851%) and variations on "mta transit strike" tripled in numbers. Interest in local news coverage boomed, with NY1 News, WNBC, and Fox 5 News all rising into our top 100 movers.
As the strike ground on, searches on "transport workers union" blew off the Buzz chart, and we logged a massive rise in other trains and buses, major hubs, and New York maps. The following topped the list...
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what's the buzz?
A subject's buzz score is the percentage of Yahoo! users searching for that subject on a given day, multiplied by a constant to make the number easier to read. Weekly leaders are the subjects with the greatest average buzz score for a given week.
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